Curling is the funniest sport I have seen. Best is how the duo scrubs the ice with brushes in front of the moving stone, while Anette Norberg barks out pagan Swedish curses, in an attempt to steer the thing after it has left her hand. The economics of curling? I needed only to watch it. If the sport falls on hard times, it could sell itself as a Monty Python skit, albeit in an obscure Swiss German dialect. Is it the only Olympic sport where you can wear earrings while playing? Here is a curling video — be baffled, be very baffled. The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market, as they say.
What I don’t understand is why they have separate men’s and women’s competitions in curling. It seems that they could all compete together just fine (as they do in the equestrian events).
I for one second the bowling comparison and add that we should seriously consider adding that as a future Olympic sport. Lawn darts are another possibility.
Unlike bowling, there’s no such thing as “curling alone.”
It must be the ultimate civic sport!
The winner buys? I’m there.
“Obscure Swiss German dialect”? Your ethnocentrism is hanging out.
“Is it the only Olympic sport where you can wear earrings while playing?”
Huh? No!
cf: Nancy Kerrigan’s figure skating free program earrings, 1994 Lillehammer
Any tennis player
Any female 100m runner (also: bracelets and funky nails).
I’m a figure skater but I’d love to learn to curl. It has become something of a cult sport here in Australia, we see the world championships on TV now (though the Olympic matches were not broadcast at all – perhaps that network should have considered the economics of cult sports before making that decision).
An afternoon of school has been cancelled in the Canadian skip’s home province so the kids can watch the “historic event”
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/story/nf_burke_schools_20060223.html
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Uh, no. Nerds need to play ultimate because it involves running, builds eye-hand coordination, and can easily involve women (the coed team I play on is a blast). Find me a “nerd” that finds billiards, curling, or some other sport to be fulfilling because of the physics, and I’ll show you someone who needs to grow up.
Annette Norberg is shouting directions to the sweepers I think. At least they are not pagan curses if anyone really thought that.
Go Sweden!
Thinking of the economics of curling is there a way to think about the value of each rock and provide some analysis of the value of different strategies?
The first rock would initially have a value based solely on position but as other rocks are curled the value of that rock would first determine the optimal positions of other rocks and change in response to the position of the other rocks. Is this (potentially) a multibody problem that has no unique solution? Are there more robust strategies that survive less than optimal rock placement or disruption by the opposing rocks?
You Americans are just Heeeeeeeeeeeeeehrd off for good curlers. At its most blood-curdling, it comes from the British Team this time (as they were all Scots), or from women curlers from Nova Scotia (the Canadian Team this time was from out west, I think). Instead of “Summer” and Winter” we should divide between “Sports” and “The Outlandish”. Curling would top the bill in the latter.
The first time I heard of “curling” follows:
I met an alum from Yale. He told me he just interviewed a prospective Yale student who is in high school. The student was from Lake Forest and was an accomplished “curler”, which I thought meant that the student must be able to lift a lot of weight in the gym. Shows my background. I managed to be quiet and not sound too stupid on the curling thing. I figured it was some type of winter sport played on ice.
Ten-pin bowling involves exactly no tactical decisions. As for women Olympic athletes… Earrings. Curls. Right here:
http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/107654.html
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